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06/05/2014

★What was the first Video Game you ever completed?★ @C64_endings #retrogaming #GamersUnite

What was the first Video Game you ever completed?

Mine was Wonder Boy In Monster Land on the SEGA Master System…..

Back in the day of the 8 Bit Console or
Computer, games were hard as nails and some didn't even have an ending,
they just got faster and harder!!

For me, completing Wonder Boy was a
massive thing as I was brought up on playing ATARI XE / XL games which
were mega tough and an ending to those games just never happened

(unless
you were playing Steve Davis Snooker which from memory ended after each
game!)

The day of the save or even the continue
had not quite arrived so the only way to get yourself to a point of
completion was to know the game inside out and know exactly where every
extra life or heart was hiding so as you could stock up to the maximum!

For the life of me I can't remember how
Wonder Boy in Monster Land ended, but I remember the relief of finally
beating the final boss and sitting back for what was considered back
then a "Cinematic Ending"

(Fast Forward To 9mins 40secs)

My whole outlook to playing Video Games post completion of Wonder Boy was to change from then onwards.

I was to become an “Ending Junkie” !! …..

I
needed to see the ending of a game before I could move onto the next
game…..

It was to be a need that I still carry into my gaming now.

I know of others who play a game until
they get bored of it and in a way I’m jealous that they enjoy games in
that fashion but on the other hand surely they are missing out on the
glorious spectacle that awaits them once a game is completed and closing
act unfolds before them!!